While releasing STAR SPLORE, my second cart, I realized that it's nice to change the default title of you carts and its threads.
Here's what happens when you search for "star_splore" in "New Carts", for example.

You get a nice cart title, "STAR SPLORE 2025-08-16". If you click on it, you go to STAR SPLORE's thread.

- The thread will have a nice title, "STAR SPLORE", which is independent of the cart's version.
- The cart will have the same nice title as before.
- Note that both titles are different from the cart's ID (star_splore).
I didn't pay attention to that when I released Tiny Tactics, my first cart.
You can see how it didn't look so nice.


Maybe those titles weren't exactly BAD, but I could do better.
You see, the default title, both your for cart and its thread, is the cart's ID.
To change the cart title I clicked on the tiny "Edit" link on the bottom right of the cart.

Then, I clicked on the title.

As this was the title for the "-5" version of the cart, I went with "Tiny Tactics v5", then pressed "Save".

To edit the thread's title, I scrolled to the end of the post and pressed "Edit".

Then I clicked on the title.

I typed "Tiny Tactics" as the thread's title and pressed "Save".

Let's see how Tiny Tactics looks in search results now.

Clicking on it, let's see the thread...

That's much nicer, isn't it?



It's been a couple days since I created this thread.
I was still not satisfied with "Tiny Tactics v5". After all, "v5" is a little misleading. This is not the fifth game in the series!
This is probably one of the reasons most authors stick to Semantic Versioning. They title their carts "v1.0", "v1.1" etc., where the number after the dot corresponds to the number appended by Lexaloffle after the cart ID.
This is a much better approach, obviously, and I should have adopted it from the start.
So, I went back to change Tiny Tactics current cart title to "v1.5". But then I noticed something...
You see, after you click the "Edit" button below the cart - and get to the page where you can edit the title, you can scroll down and check all uploaded versions of that cart!

I know no one will see those older versions, as they are not listed in any posts (that I know of, anyway). But now I had to fix those cart titles!
I clicked each version and changed the cart title accordingly. You can press F5 after changing a title to update the versions list.
In the end, that's what I got:

That's much nicer, isn't it?
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